moustache quotes

Dewey has no inner reserve of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking. A man couldn't wear a moustache like that without having it affect his mind.

- Herbert Clark Hoover
Quoted in Richard Norton Smith  An Uncommon Man (1984).

Being kissed bya man who didn't wax his moustache waslike eating an egg without salt.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Story of the Gadsbys,'Poor Dear Mamma'.

If Joan of Arc had been born in Austria and worn a moustache, she might have conveyed much the same impression.

-1st Viscount
  Letter to GeorgeV, referring to his first meeting with Adolf Hitler, 27 Mar. US playwright.  His  plays  and  musicals  include  Barefoot  in  the Park     (1963),     The     Odd     Couple     (1965)     and     the     semi- autobiographical trilogy  Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues  (1984)  and  Broadway  Bound  (1986).  More  recent  works include  Lost  in Yonkers  (1991),  which  won  him  a  Pulitzer  Prize and aTonyAward, and London Suite (1995).

[It is] drawing a moustache on a madonna.

- Robert Charles Venturi
  On designing an addition to Oberlin College's1917 Allen Memorial Art Museum. In the NewYorkTimes, 30 Jan.

Roderick Spode? Big chap with a small moustache and the sort of eye that can open an oyster at sixty paces?

-Plum
  The Code of theWoosters, ch.2.